Chapter 286: The Idea of Freely Exploiting Undead

"Great master, Al'Erfensi Xueji is willing to become your eternally loyal servant, and hence bathe forever in the True Dragon's glorious light."

Naimi Xisi looked at the ascended A'Erwasi and formed an idea in his mind.

Let A'Erwasi break the Summoning spell's time limit and stay in the prime material plane—hard to say it's difficult, hard to say it's easy.

Under normal circumstances, as long as the summoned being does not originate from evil planes such as the Abyss, Hell, or Purgatory, merely revising the specific terms of the summoning contract can make the summoned entity persist permanently in the prime material plane.

The Advanced Summon Undead, modified by a power gem, has a spell nature that closely resembles a fusion of the Nine‑Circle Conjuration spell "Otherworldly Gate" and the "Monster Summoning" series.

The Monster (and similar Undead, nature, and elemental) Summoning series holds absolute control over the summoned beings.

Usually, creatures summoned by such spells are merely projections of real beings, lacking sentience; the summoning duration is brief, and even if the summoned entity dies, its original self in the other plane remains unaffected.

However, the "Otherworldly Gate" and its counterpart Eight‑Circle Spell "Advanced Otherworldly Oath Bind" are different.

Both spells pull the actual bodies of other‑plane beings into the prime material plane, which means the caster lacks any authority to control the summoned entities.

The summoned being may, of its own will, decide whether to obey the caster's commands—after all, the worst that can happen is being expelled back to its original plane, right?

The Monsters summoned by "Otherworldly Gate" and "Advanced Otherworldly Oath Bind" are usually far stronger than those from the Monster Summoning series, and if the caster wishes, they can remain permanently in the prime material plane; Mages naturally covet them.

Consequently, Mages seeking to bind these Monsters to their service often resort to extremely dirty methods.

This is the true purpose of the "Binding Chamber" in each Mage Tower.

Archmages summon, via "Otherworldly Gate", immensely powerful beings—potentially surpassing themselves—into the unbreakable rune prison within the "Binding Chamber".

These entities usually realize the grim truth of their captivity the moment they first appear in the prime material plane.

Of course, the quality of the "Binding Chamber" is crucial for restraining such powerful other‑worldly beings. Tales of a mage summoning a lord from the Abyss, only for the lord to break the chamber's seal and go on a massive slaughter, are commonplace in Frelen.

Hence, this middle degree is something Mages must gauge.

Unfortunately, "Otherworldly Gate" is merely a Nine‑Circle Spell, and the randomness of the summoned target is so high that the summoned being's strength is often beyond the Mage's control.

As a result, most Mages who attempt to enslave other‑worldly beings meet a terribly grim death.

Yet a few lucky ones, and even legendary Mages whose power tops the Multiverse, have successfully captured decent prey.

In such cases, they employ various torturous methods, as well as wealth and knowledge as bait, to brainwash these pitiful captive beings.

Many fools who cannot endure the cruel torment, or who covet wealth, choose to surrender to the Mage and sign a treaty that binds their personal freedom.

This, then, is the summoning contract.

The Advanced Summon Undead that Naimi Xisi employs has undergone a massive mutation from the original.

The core of it lies in the application of the summoning contract.

Based on the restraint A'Erwasi feels, Naimi Xisi infers that the Undead summoned by this spell will be forcibly bound into a master‑servant contract the instant they arrive in the prime material plane.

This is why Naimi Xisi can still summon A'Erwasi at will in subsequent summonings.

Although it appears that A'Erwasi would return to the Ying Ying Ming Jie after the spell expires, in reality he has already entered a master‑servant contract with Naimi Xisi. Naimi Xisi does not grasp the mechanism, but he understands that this is the change brought by the power gem's amplification of the spell.

Therefore, if Naimi Xisi can figure out the spell's principle, he can alter the summoning contract in the spell's core, turning A'Erwasi's stay in the prime material plane from temporary to permanent.

With Juan Ce Long's current Arcane Power knowledge, Naimi Xisi had already parsed the spell's principles fairly well during the recent battle, yet another difficulty emerged alongside the alteration of the summoning contract.

Although he does not know how the power gem achieves this, Naimi Xisi discovers that the contract with A'Erwasi is anchored on the Magic Net.

The contract's complexity can be described as a tangled mess.

If Naimi Xisi wishes to modify the contract, he must extract it from the Magic Net and imprint it onto a precious top‑tier Divination‑type magical gem as a carrier.

For a Naimi Xisi whose wealth rivals a nation, purchasing a magical gem worth several million gold coins is merely a drop in the bucket.

Yet this thwarted his scheme to empty‑handedly reap the Undead of the Ying Ying Ming Jie.

Originally it required only a negligible amount of mana, but now it incurs a cost of several million gold coins.

"A few million gold coins for a top‑tier Undead isn't such a loss, when you think about it," Naimi Xisi sighed.

!

If other Archmages learned of his idea, they'd likely be unable to resist picking up their staffs for a Gandalf‑style smash.

"You go back first," he instructed A'Erwasi, then withdrew his mana, and the vampire instantly turned into a wisp of black smoke and vanished.

Afterward, he turned his gaze toward the human survivors a few kilometers away.

The other survivors had long since vanished, and although the recent battle between the dragon and the vampire was far from them, the cataclysmic scene had already terrified those Beidai barbarians.

Conversely, the old man who claimed to know the desert actually stayed put, honestly.

This pleased Naimi Xisi; even if the man fled, he possessed countless Divination spells to pull him out of the endless desert, yet he still prefers the clever.

The silver dragon folded its wings and descended twenty steps away, then transformed into a pale humanoid amidst the yellow sand.

Naimi Xisi lifted his gold‑rimmed thin‑border glasses and said gently, "Elder, now you can carefully tell me about the Sand Resonance."

Old Akbar, despite the other's affable human form, did not relax; his 73 years of life had already taught him the terrifying nature of the humanoid before him.

Even the most foolish fellow would bow his head after witnessing the other's cataclysmic tactics.

As for the idiots who don't bow? Look, that reckless blue dragon just now is the perfect example.

The old man was about to answer the dragon's question when the dust‑covered, filthy boy beside him pressed his lips together, fell to the ground in agony, and kept trembling.

"It hurts—ah!! So hot!! Water! Save me! Water!" the boy screamed, rolling on the ground like a madman, his voice hoarse, fists clenched hard, even as blood seeped from the cracks.

With a thunderous roar, dazzling blue‑white flames erupted from the boy's body.

(End of Chapter)